On the upside, Joe’s got a girl: a bold receptionist named Polly whose smarts, savvy and sex appeal may be just what he needs. Having triggered it, Joe now faces the wrath of both the British government and a diabolical South Asian dictator who is also Edie’s old arch-nemesis. And the device? It’s a 1950s doomsday machine. His client, Edie Banister, is more than the kindly old lady she appears to be-she’s a retired international secret agent. That orderly existence is suddenly upended when Joe activates a particularly unusual clockwork mechanism.
The son of infamous London criminal Mathew “Tommy Gun” Spork, he has turned his back on his family’s mobster history and aims to live a quiet life.
Joe Spork spends his days fixing antique clocks. The only way he can survive, is to muster the courage to fight, help Edie complete a mission she gave up years ago, and pick up his father’s old gun.From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World, blistering gangster noir meets howling absurdist comedy as the forces of good square off against the forces of evil, and only an unassuming clockwork repairman and an octogenarian former superspy can save the world from total destruction. Joe’s once-quiet world is now populated with mad monks, psychopathic serial killers, scientific geniuses and threats to the future of conscious life in the universe. Having triggered it, Joe now faces the wrath of both the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator, Edie’s old arch-nemesis. When Joe is asked to fix one particularly unusual device, his life is suddenly upended.
She's beginning to wonder if they ever did. She’s nearly ninety and the things she fought to save don’t seem to exist anymore. Joe Spork, son of the infamous criminal Mathew ‘Tommy Gun’ Spork just wants a quiet life, repairing clockwork in a wet, unknown bit of London.Įdie Banister, former superspy, lives quietly and wishes she didn’t. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Literature. From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World - an adventure story, a war story, and a love story, all wound into one brilliant narrative that runs like clockwork.
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